What is Trafficking?

Human Trafficking is a form of modern day slavery.

Sex trafficking is recruiting, harboring, transporting, providing, or obtaining a person for a commercial sex act that is induced by force, fraud, or coercion. When the victim is under 18, no force, fraud, or coercion is necessary.

Labor trafficking is recruiting, harboring, transporting, providing, or obtaining a person for labor or services, through the use of force, fraud, or coercion for the purpose of subjection to involuntary servitude, peonage, debt bondage, or slavery.

How is DHHS preventing Trafficking?

The Division of Children and Family Services partners with the Nebraska Human Trafficking Task Force (NHTTF) and is an active member of this team.

DHHS has trained more than 1,800 professionals and DHHS staff to recognize Human Trafficking, how to prevent this from happening to the families we serve and Trafficking resources available to them.